| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w25935 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 25935 |
| Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem | |
| J. Aislinn Bohren; Kareem Haggag; Alex Imas; Devin G. Pope | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-06-10 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Discrimination has been widely studied in the social sciences. Economists often categorize the source of discrimination as either taste-based or statistical—a valuable distinction for policy design and welfare analysis. In this paper, we highlight that in many situations economic agents may have inaccurate beliefs, and demonstrate that the possibility of inaccurate statistical discrimination generates an identification problem for attempts to isolate the source of differential treatment. We introduce isodiscrimination curves—which represent the set of preferences and beliefs that generate the same level of discrimination—to formally outline the identification problem: when not accounted for, inaccurate statistical discrimination can be mistaken for taste-based discrimination, accurate statistical discrimination, or their combination. A review of the empirical discrimination literature in economics, spanning 1990-2018, reveals the scope of this issue. While most papers discuss and attempt to distinguish between taste and statistical discrimination, a small minority—fewer than 7%—consider inaccurate beliefs in the analysis. An experiment illustrates a methodology for differentiating between the three sources of discrimination, demonstrating the pitfalls of the identification problem while presenting a portable solution. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Behavioral Economics ; Labor Economics ; Labor Discrimination |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25935 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583609 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | J. Aislinn Bohren,Kareem Haggag,Alex Imas,et al. Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination: An Identification Problem. 2019. |
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